mtl_usr

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by mtl_usr 9y ago
> I remember thinking that math classes would be far more interesting if we were allowed to hand in a program to solve the class of problems they were asking us to manually and repeatedly solve, and to bring that program to the exam With
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
> It reminds me of what Microsoft used to do: embrace, extend, extinguish. I guess they still do it on the enterprise level. But they have fallen behind in terms of consumer ecosystem.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
You are right. Maybe I'm biased and a tad emotional. I was expecting more from Canada.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
And the Juicero effect.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
Correct. The 16 years old bit is for the driver license where, in north america, 16 is the minimal age to get it.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
It's a long talk but https://youtu.be/ci4kbCmEmOI It's by James Whittaker. Basically people are downloading and using way less apps than a few years ago. Today to get the users to use something it has to be sortof
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
It should be pretty easy to filter out, given that there will be a very strong correlation between length of the drive and rating. Passenger rating does matter when it comes to how fast you are getting your ride.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
Uber drivers have fair wages, considering they are working in a saturated market and competing with people with the qualifications of a 16 years old teen. There are a lot of people with these qualifications.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
I think it has to do with the traditional app model slowly being phased out. There is a huge saturation of apps on every major platform and it's getting harder and harder for new devs to get enough userbase that way.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
It represent a backward country as these cases should never have happened in the first place. Also, the operation was lead by pretty much all of Canada's telcos. It's not an especially competitive market.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
Doing any kind of business in non-USD currency is itself not a great move.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
At least I'm pretty sure they (the cable companies) won't be able to use anything they got there in court. But let's be real for a moment, that man, if he sues, will get absolutely nothing in return. Still, it's about ti
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
When I was about 6 or 7 there was a complete section of my math textbook which contained informations and example on the BASIC language. We, of course, never read those chapters in class but I did anyways while bored with the actual stuff t
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
> A lot of veggie imitation meats are low on fat and protein and extremely high on processed carbs. Which makes them pretty bad, even worst for dieting.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
That's a shame. Curious, how do you normally figure out the phosphorus content ? Is there a guideline somewhere that gives you an adequate estimate ?
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
I've met people that were scared of Square as it "didn't look like a genuine POS". I guess using an iPad could make the consumer feel safer. Than again a "Pro" looking case for the Android tablet might also do
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
That's a shame. I didn't think of that specific use-case (only one or two apps for the whole life-cycle of the unit). I'm still curious to know if it would be cheaper to buy Android units anyways and replace them as their sof
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
> Technically, for all or most of these purposes, an Android tablet would work equally well. But people still think "iPad" when a tablet is required. I'm still waiting for an Android tablet that's as nice to use as an
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
I've seen a few companies do this. They save big on rent but the impact on productivity is evident. I guess they are rich enough to waste their employee's time to save a few square feet.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
Other than a few headlines in the news has it really been that bad ? Bad enough to change a whole business plan ?
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
I guess they went as far as they could without a proper package manager. > Shared libraries beyond that would bring the hell of version incompatibility. One need only look at Apple’s evolution of Swift where there still isn’t binary comp
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
No secure communication AND Brexit ? Hope Europeans bankers will enjoy their new offices in Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
I'm as far to mobile development as I can be but is there no shared libraries on those platforms ? Other than the environment provided ones, isn't it possible to bundle some dynamically loaded libraries that can be shared by multi
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
Don't worry, you can get to third world carrier really quickly by taking a Greyhound bus to Canada.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
> Laundromat's are now how I explain "the cloud" to non-technical people. I will steal that explanation. Thanks !
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
> I wonder how this will play out in the future as class divides between high skilled versus low skilled workers become more and more ever present within the oncoming wave of mass automation. The Bay Area is a pretty good current example
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
But the article would lose all clickbaitiness. Not good when the website that hosts it relied on page view and ads to make a profit ! EDIT : National geographic isn't an offender for clickbait.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
Now seems like the perfect timing to do such a thing considering the Model 3 is entering production, and a lot of customers are going to give Tesla a very bad reputation if they can't get their Model 3 on time. Of course, this will onl
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
I love the clash between lawyers and a CS professor at Harvard that was simply happy some of it's students were programming and working on some personal projects.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
RNA is extraordinary because it can encode information in a way it can be replicated AND perform chemical reactions like a protein would. It does both of these things way less efficiently than DNA for storage and proteins for enzymatic reac

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